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Weekly People Roundup: 2 November 200502/11/2005. Source: AltAssets. 
 All the week's most important people stories from across the globe. Essential reading for those who need to keep up-to-date with the private equity industry's key staff moves.
TA Associates has appointed Mark Howard Carter as a vice president, based in the firm's Boston office. He will join TA's Healthcare Group, focusing on recapitalisations, management-led buy-outs and growth capital investments in healthcare and service-related businesses. Prior to joining the firm, Carter worked as a senior associate at Parthenon Capital in Boston, where he specialised in leveraged buy-outs in middle-market companies. TA Associates manages over $6bn in capital.
HitecVision Private Equity has appointed Pal M Reed as partner. Reed has extensive experience in the banking and investment sector. HitecVision Private Equity is a member of Norsk Venture Kapitalforening.
Mark J P Anson, the chief investment officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, will succeed Tony Watson as chief executive of Hermes when Watson retires at the end of January 2006. Anson joined CalPERS in 1999. He is a qualified attorney, certified public accountant, chartered financial analyst and a chartered alternative investment analyst. He has served on advisory and executive committees for the New York Stock Exchange and a number of international, corporate governance bodies. Previous appointments include Oppenheimer Funds, Salomon Brothers and Chapman and Cutler Schiff, Hardin and Waite.
US Austin Ventures has appointed Kari-Pekka 'K-P' Wilska, a cellular industry pioneer, as a venture partner. Wilska will be based in Dallas, Texas and evaluate potential deals throughout the US and internationally. Wilska retired as president of Nokia earlier this year. He joined Nokia in 1973 and held numerous management and marketing positions at the company.
New York City-based Quadrangle Group has hired Gordon A Holmes as a managing principal. He will be joining the private equity team of Quadrangle Capital Partners, which invests in companies across the media and telecommunications industries. Most recently, Holmes was a general partner at Forstmann Little & Co., where his responsibilities encompassed sourcing, due diligence and negotiation of investment opportunities within the media and communications industry. Prior to joining Forstmann Little in 1998, Holmes worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in its Singapore, New York and London offices.
Houston-based private equity firm The Sterling Group has appointed Francis T Carr as a senior associate. Carr will evaluate investment opportunities and monitor and advise portfolio companies. Previously, Carr was an associate with Arena Capital Partners, an associate with ING Barings, and an analyst with Prudential Securities Incorporated. Sterling targets controlling interests in leveraged buy-out investments in basic manufacturing, industrial services and distribution companies with enterprise values typically between $100m and $500m.
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